Since the day I was diagnosed, I’ve heard it said a million times that each person’s cancer experience is different. It turns out that each person’s cancer is different too – on a molecular level. Asking the question takes the management of your cancer to the next level. I believe strongly that we need to be active participants in our own healing. Ask the question during your next doctor’s visit. By advocating for yourself, you will get the information you need to make the best decisions you can for your health care.
Visit the website today to watch informational videos and learn about new advancements in technology and research. You can also join the “Is My Cancer Different?” Facebook community. We all want to live long and healthy lives beyond cancer. Knowing how best to talk to our doctors and make the right decisions is crucial to that goal.
Survival > Existence,
Debbie
Where We Go Now 
Comments
Truly personalized medicine
Glad you brought this issue up. Many of the high tech startups I’ve coached over the years have been focused on precisely this issue: how can we identify *specifically* the cancer an individual is dealing with so that we can precisely tailor the treatment, minimize the development of drug resistance and predict future behavior. Most of them are nowhere close to human trials, but thought you and your readers might like to know that personalized medicine is very much in the forefront of entrepreneurial thinking, as well as in the research hospitals and big pharma.
Plano & Simple
coach and ‘yenta’ for entrepreneurs
Would Love to Hear More About Startups and Personalized Medicine
Linda:
I’m so happy to hear that this is an issue attracting creative, entrepreneurial minds. I would love to hear more about what’s coming down the pike for cancer survivors looking for truly personalized medicine.
Thanks so much for your comment!
Survival > Existence,
Debbie
With 1 in 8 women dealing
With 1 in 8 women dealing with breast cancer directly in their lives and I don’t know how many people dealing with the many other types of cancer, it’s not surprising that there are many entrepreneurs who are absolutely passionate about finding more effective treatments. As you know, my father has had prostate, lung *and* colon cancer in the last dozen plus years and both you and another family member live have gone through treatment for breast cancer – if I had the training, I might be one of those entrepreneurs!
It would be my pleasure to write some posts on the startups I have coached that are focused on cancer. Some do personalized medicine, others have new approaches for delivering treatments directly to cancer cells, some address drug resistance, others pursue early detection. Startups are a high risk endeavor and most of them fail, but they are able to focus on a specific problem to the exclusion of almost all others, and that can make them more successful and certainly more ‘nimble’ than big research labs.
I’m up to my eyeballs in cleantech companies for the next couple of weeks, but will tackle this subject soon after. I’m excited to introduce you and your readers to some of these wonderful innovators!
Linda
Plano & Simple
coach and ‘yenta’ for entrepreneurs